What a great quote

What a great quote

In the Boston Globe’s article on Tuesday’s surprisingly close Senate race between slam-dunk Democrat Martha Coakley and upstart Republican Scott Brown, we get this insightful quote from the White House.

Said presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs: “I don’t think Scott Brown is going to win on Tuesday.”

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Matt J. Duffy, PhD, is an academic media scholar. His works have been accepted for publication in the Journal of Middle East Media, the Journal of Mass Media Ethics and the Newspaper Research Journal. An assistant professor of communication, Duffy teaches UAE and international media law at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. He is an active member of AUSACE, the Arab-US Association for Communication Educators. Follow him on Twitter.

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Really enjoyed the Kinsley piece; not only is he right, but he takes his own advice! (A huge improvement over his turgid, poster-boy-for-liberal-smarm days at the New Republic.)Time to write Scott Brown a check.

BRD
January 15, 2010 at 8:04 pm

I know nothing about news writing, but the quote strike me as significant since as early as yesterday the WH was working hard to distance the President from this race. Gibbs is saying they’re “all in” and tied to the outcome.

I guess polling says the Democratic faithful in MA are a bit depressed and a visit from the President will help boost Coakley’s candidacy. We’ll see if there’s any hopeychange magic left in Obama’s wand because the candidate he’ll be stumping for is a real dud.

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Dr. Matt J. Duffy serves as an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Media at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, USA. He enjoys teaching the art of good journalism, a noble profession and powerful tool for social change. Duffy worked as a journalist for several news outlets including the Boston Herald and the Marietta Daily Journal. He now teaches journalism and media law.
Duffy's research focuses on international approaches to media law. Wolters Kluwer will publish the second edition of his"Media Laws in the United Arab Emirates" in 2017. He has published more than a dozen academic articles and writes occasionally for niche publications. Duffy enjoyed a visit to Pakistan in May 2016 as part of the Fulbright Scholar program from the US State Department. Since 2012, Duffy has served on the board of the Arab-United States Association for Communication Educators, an organization that aims to improve journalism in the Middle East. He also owns Oxford Editing that he started in 2007.